The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-12
CITY NOTES.

Messrs. Baldwin & Cochran have a
The rain yesterday was the very
thing, and it made everybody feel bet
ter for its timely coming.
Mr. Joseph Voss will leave to morrow
for Buffalo, ". Y, his old home, where
he will spend the summer.
There will be a service of reading in
the Methodist Church to-day at IL a. M,
as the pastor is not in the city.
Mr.. w. w. Mitchell, cashier of the
Florida Southern Railway. returned yes
terday from brief trip to Boston.
Watermelons are becoming more plen-
tifuI, and yesterday they were selling all
along from twenty-five to fifty cents
each.
Mr.. Cook Carleton left last night for
the North where he goes ON his annual
summer trip. He will be absent about
two months.
Mr.. Henis Petermann offers the Pa
latka House. which has been recently
overhauled and put in thorough repair,
for rent. See special for particulars.
The man who tries to wear new shoes
at this season of the year is deserving of
the most profound sympathy. "A fell
low feeling makes us wondrous kind.
The Florida mosquito may not be as
large as his New Jersey brother, but
what he lacks i'm size he makes up in ac-
tivity. The Florida mosquito lacks a
great deal of being fool.
DIR. A. w. Knight. Secretary of the
jacksonville Board of Health, was in
town yesterday, having come up to con-
fer with DIR. Ames, Secretary of the Pa
latka Board, on quarantine matters.
The latter end of the afternoon is the
best time for shopping, as |. jacobson
will prove to you if you will call upon
him any afternoon this week after to-
day. See his advertisement of sales at
cost in another column.
Mr.. C. G.. Cochran will leave this week
for Minneapolis, Mimi, where he will
make his future home. Mr.. Cochran is
a promising young lawyer, and, while
may win fame and fortune in his new
home.
The Patlatka Post Office has just re-
ceived an immense 5,70O pound safe
which was put in the office yesterday
afternoon. 1t will be used for the safe
keeping of registered packages, stamps.
and other post office valuables, and is
both fire and burglar proof.
Messrs. Vertrees & Co. struck pretty
hard job yesterday in moving the heavy
new safe from the Florida Southern
depot to the Post Office. The safe
weighed 300 pounds, and it required
four horses and considerable lung power
to pull it through the heavy sand.
Col. s. b. Carter, formerly chief en-
gineer of the Jacksonville, Tampa and
Key West Railway. has been in town for
several days. His presence always sug-
gests work, and we would not be sur
prised to learn of new enterprise in
this section i'm short while, which will
he under his direction.
DIR. G.. l.. Sipprell, of Seville, who was
in town yesterday. brought down with
him sample Of gamma grass, grown
from seed brought from Africa. The
sample stem was about seven and half
feet long, and the doctor informs us that
it makes most excellent stock feed, and
grows most luxuriously. lie is growing
quite a quantity of it.
The city may Yet have to pay damages
for the bad sidewalk ON the north side
of Reid street, west of First street.
Hardly day passes without an accident
to some one throug hone of the loose
boards of that pavement turning or fitting
upunder the foot. and to walk that side
walk Mt night, with its numerous gaps,
is perilous journey to the most sure
footed. 1t is not for rod or two, but
the entire length of the block is insecure.
1t can not be attended to too soon.-
Yesterday afternoon the police arrested
a burly negro by the name of Henry
Williamson, who was drunk on the
streets, and who proved to be one of the
ugliest customers with whom the police
have had to deal i'm some time. He was
so unruly that he was put a in wagon
where it took four men to hold him in.
He yelled and cursed all along Lemon
street, and the wagon was followed to
the lookup by quite a crowd. He Will
have hearing before the Mayor to-mor-
row morning.
Prof. Nj. III. Nisbett. Director of the
Jacksonville Home Minstrels, was in
town last night arranging for the appear
ance of that popular company in Palatka
on "Wednesday evening next The com